“Now he had answers, but they weren't doing what answers were supposed to do: they weren't making things simpler or easier. They weren't helping.”

“There was just a moment when things weren't quite the same, weren't quite as they had always been through the long friendship”

“But that was the problem with having the answers. It was only after you gave them that you realized they sometimes weren't what people wanted to hear.”

“I often wonder what I'd do if there weren't any books in the world.”

“I'm excited by the band [White Stripes]. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.”

“He was the closest thing I'd ever had to something, or someone, that mattered. But in the end, close didn't count. You were either in, or you weren't.”

“The days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.”

“They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things.”

“You always wanted to make it clear you weren't like the rest of us. You're still doing it.”

“They were on the side of the angels, even if the angels weren't entirely sure that this was a good thing.”